Our Focus
The Early Learning and Development Working Group partners with child-care providers to enhance early learning programs for children.
Current Priorities
- Organize a professional development and education list so child-care providers can easily find training opportunities.
- Create and pilot a shared-services model to help child-care providers work together and strengthen their businesses.
- Work with family, friend, and neighbor child care providers to provide resources, training and quality improvement opportunities.
The Minus 9 to 5 initiative provides an incredible opportunity for me to contribute to big ideas that will improve our system of early care and education. The collaboration among organizations is allowing us to be much stronger together.
Minus 9 to 5 is a collective impact initiative of the M. Foscue Brock Institute for Community and Global Health, housed in the Department of Pediatrics, Eastern Virginia Medical School.